DIET BREADTH WOULD BE INTERESTING TO LOOK AT (how many different things each lizard ate)
taxa abundances ~ land use + veg cover (by lifeform) + RE:site + RE:trap type
- How to combine pitfall/sticky data?
- Option 1: As described above (for NMDS, color-code by trap type; for GLMM, include trap type as a RE)
- Option 2: Two separate analyses (this seems confusing)
- Option 3: Sum abundance by trap pair and use P/A in analyses
- Use relative abundance or PA?
- For now I’m planning to do both and compare
- Is it fine to use a trap as a sample (with site as a RE)?
- I’m worried about independence of samples, but also we only have 9 sites?
- Should I remove rare taxa?
- I’m thinking of limiting everything to the top 8(?) lizard prey taxa
taxa abundances ~ land use + veg cover (by lifeform) + RE:site
Same questions as above:
- Use relative abundance or PA? (planning to do both and compare)
- Is it fine to use a lizard as a sample (with site as a RE)?
- Should I remove rare taxa? (maybe limit to top 8 prey taxa)
diet abundances ~ prey abundances + RANDOM:site
- Is this even a thing you can do???
- I think it is I just can’t find an example with mvabund yet but haven’t looked very hard
- Same as above: Use relative abundance or PA?
- I think that
herbivory ~ land use + veg cover (by lifeform) + RE:site myrmecophagy ~ land use + veg cover (by lifeform) + RE:site